Hey guys, sorta first time posting anywhere other than /b/ but

What are we fucking google?

>>17077663

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker

http://archive.4plebs.org/x/search/text/skinwalker/

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>>17077663
They're native American, most natives who know of them don't like to talk about them. Supposedly to become one you need to murder a person you love or something.

>>17078173
>They're Native American
No, they're fucking not. They just happen to share a name. 4chan "skinwalkers" are the creation on /k/ and /x/ invented at the end of either 2012 or 2013. There was a huge debate at the time over whether they should be called skinwalkers or some other name like "flesh gaits" due to this that was ongoing for probably close to a year.

From Wikipedia:
>In some Native American legends, a skin-walker is a person with the natural ability to turn into any animal he or she desires. To be able to transform, legend sometimes requires that the skin-walker wears a pelt of the animal. In most cases, this pelt is not used in modern times because it is an obvious sign of them being skin-walkers

It has nothing to do with the qualities attributed to creepypasta skinwalkers. A lot of people get seriously fucking pissed off when told this an insist it really did come from the Native American myth it shares nothing in common with. These people are newfriends. The original story was from like Australia and it is probably the last good thing this board ever produced, fucking take credit for it.

Also if those are your tattoos you look like a retarded faggot.

>>17079454
Yinaldlushi then.

>>17079454
OP here, I'm an Australian so I know some folk-lore

When you say it originated he would it be to do with something similar to the yowie?

It's pretty much Australia's version of bigfoot

>>17080273
You mean the yowie ice cream?

>>17080880
No he means yaoi, you dumb slut.

>>17079454
>mfw there are books about Navajo legends that mention skinwalkers and the adverse affects of whistling at night
Pleb.